Backup utility in Bash Shell Script

save following bash shell script as mybackup.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# Filename: mybackup.sh
# Author : Simrat Pal Singh
# Email : simrat.khokhar@gmail.com
#
# Modified: 02-03-2011
# to even work with paths having space
#

if [ $# -ne 2 ];then
echo "Wrong number of arguments"
echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/source /path/destination/"
exit 1
fi

input=$1
backupdate=$(date +%d%m%Y)
foldername=$(basename "$1")
inputpath=$(dirname "$1")
outpath="${2}"
output="${2}${foldername}_${backupdate}"

case ${foldername} in
*.tar.bz2)
[ "${inputpath}" = "" ] && inputpath="."i
bzip2 -dck "${inputpath}"/"${foldername}" | tar -C "${outpath}" -x
;;

*)
counter=0
while [ -f "${output}.${counter}.tar.bz2" ]
do
counter=$(expr $counter + 1)
done

output="${output}.${counter}"

# run tar and bzip2 command to make backup
tar -C "${inputpath}" -c "$foldername"|bzip2 -cz >"${output}.tar.bz2"
chmod -x "${output}.tar.bz2"
;;
esac

#--------------------- END ------------------------


execute with two arguments as:
sh mybackup.sh /path/source /path/destination/

it will create 'source_ddmmyyyy.x.tar.bz2' at /path/destination/
where 'x' is integer value, ie if you run it twice on same day for same source folder, it will automatically incremented.

if source folder is .tar.bz2, then it will unzip the contents at the destination path

To set default workspace in eclipse on linux

Following trick works on ubuntu

cd /use/lib/eclipse/configuration
sudo gedit config.ini
find 'osgi.instance.area.default' and set its value accordingly
save and close